WestJet, China Southern Airlines Begin Codeshare

WestJet announced the launch of a codeshare agreement with China Southern Airlines. Under the agreement, China Southern is able to place its code on select WestJet flights connecting between Vancouver and Edmonton, Kelowna, Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg, Prince George, Calgary, Toronto, and Regina.

Passengers can book tickets on the codeshare flights through China Southern Airlines or other travel agencies.

China Southern Airlines recently increased its service to Toronto to daily flights on June 18 of this year.

Last month, WestJet launched WestJet Encore, a wholly owned subsidiary of WestJet, which provides service to multiple cities across Canada. WestJet also launched service to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina from Toronto in May.

The coronavirus is now affecting 104 countries and territories across the globe and many travelers are postponing or cancelling their travel plans as a result.
In some cases, a traveler is holding off because travel to his destination is simply not possible due to quarantine and containment rules; in others, it’s simply a desire not to go somewhere where one might end up with the coronavirus or trapped in a quarantined …

In early May, Warren Buffett divested all of his investment firm’s holdings in the four major U.S. airlines, warning that the “world has changed” for the aviation industry due to the coronavirus crisis. In mid May, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said he saw a bumpy road ahead for the airline industry and predicted that a major carrier would not survive 2020 as a result.
It appears Buffett and Calhoun were on …